Inserting Silverlight content with Expression Web 3: Module 4

Inserting Silverlight Video into a Web Page Using Expression Web 3

In this module, you’ll learn how to identify the source of layout problems in SuperPreview, using the Box Highlighting and Lights Out Highlighting features.

Defining a Site in Expression Web
You’ll begin this module by defining a site in Expression Web 3.

1. Open Expression Web 3 and, from the Site menu in Expression Web, choose Open Site.
2. In the Open Site window that appears, click the Browse button.
3. Navigate to the 04_SuperPreview_identifying_layout_problems folder. Click Open, locate the Lucerne_Site subfolder and click Open again in the next window that appears.
4. In the Site View tab, double-click video.html to open this page in Expression Web.

Silverlight Video Overview
Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering rich interactive applications and video for the web. You can insert pre-existing Silverlight video into a page, or you can encode other kinds of video into Silverlight and insert the encoded video into a page.

The Insert Silverlight video feature requires Microsoft Expression Encoder, which is installed with Microsoft Expression Web. Expression Encoder is used to encode video and to provide video skins. In addition to the streaming web playback format, Expression Encoder can encode in other formats, including H.264 and WMV for podcasts.

The full version of Expression Web includes a copy of Expression Encoder. If you have acquired Expression Web as a trial version, you can download Expression Encoder from the Expression Community site.